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was made Impossible for his Ma^ty to disallow of any of those
Acts without making void the whole and this did oblige us be-
cause of some things that we found not fitt to be allowed to
represent to his Ma^ty our humble opinion that the Aforesaid
Act might be disallowed which his Ma^ty has been pleased to
do Accordingly
We are further to Observe to you That an Act for the Ser-
vice of Allmighty God and the Establishment of the Protestant
Religion having been Enacted there formerly and disallowed

Original
Journal.

by his Ma^ty in 1695 was nevertheless reenacted in 1696 and
now again in 1699 without any materiall Alteration in the
thing for which it has been so disallowed this obliged us fur-
ther to Offer unto his Ma^ty that the s^d Act as Passed in 1696
might be disallowed also which his Ma^ty in like maner has
been pleased to Agree to, And it is accordingly disallowed (to-
gether with the foresaid Act for ascertaining the Laws of that
Province) by his Ma^tys Order in Councill of the 30^th November
last which we send you here inclosed, by this means the Laws of
Maryland (Excepting this one of 1696) are just in the Same
State that they were before the Assembly mett which revised
the two foresaid Volumes, & you may further observe by the
Inclosed Copy of a Paper presented to us by some Consider-
able Merchants here, and that there are other strong objec-
tions ag^t the foresaid Act of 1696 beside what we Offered to
his Ma^ty thereupon
But now the better to avoid any Mistake for the future in
things of this kind We advise you to be mindfull of his Ma^tys
Instructions about making all Laws (as much as Possible) in-
definite & without Limittation of time and against the reenact-
ing of Laws without his Ma^ty Express Consent, the Consider-

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ation of that Instruction & the Reason of it might have helped
to prevent your mistake upon the other, and to this we Add,
that as you see now the inconveniency of Passing so many
Laws of Different Kinds by one Single Act wherefore your Care
hereafter must be not onely that Each Act be passed Severally,
but also that different matters be not mixed in the Same Act,
and that nothing be put into any Act (as it is notoriously in
that for the Service of Allmighty God) of another Nature than
what is agreeable to the Title of it, That so any particular
Matter or particular Act may be approved or disallowed of by
his Ma^ty without Involving others that have noe Relation there-
unto in the same Determinacon
Also a Paragraph in their L^ps L^re to his Excellency of the 3^d
of December 1700 viz^t

The Acts of the Generall Assembly of that Province that
you have lately transmitted to us, are now in the hands of M^r
Attorney Gen^ll for his Opinion thereupon in Point of Law, and

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